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Won't sleep through the night!

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I have an 8 month old that has never slept through the night. I try to let her cry, but it always gets so bad that I can't take it anymore. She drinks about 16 ozs in one night. Sometime she just wakes up crying and doesn't want a bottle. It's getting worse the older she gets. HELP! I need sleep!

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I just started putting my 10 month old daughter in her crib. This is the third night she has been in her crib on her own. Before, she would scream as soon as I would lay her down. I found something that seems to work for me, I wrap her up in a blanket (a large fleece blanket instead of a baby blanket, so she may feel like she is still in my bed). Then, I give her her bottle, and sometimes she goes to sleep with that, sometimes we have to rock and watch cartoons. Once she is asleep, I put her in her crib wrapped in her blanket, not swaddled because she's too big. She usually moves herself to her belly and gets settled in and is fine. I'm amazed at how easy it was. Keep in mind when laying her in her crib, the sheet is probably cold, which will wake her up, so the blanket helps with the comfort. It is also warm with your body heat, which may be a little deceptive but it does the trick!! Next week I'm going to start training her to fall asleep on her own. Hope this helps.

My 5 week old can sleep for 5-7 hours at night, but only when swaddled and in her carseat. I'm convinced that it's 3 part solution. 1) I feed her lots right before bed. I'll sometimes nurse 2 or 3 times in 3 hours and give her 2 oz. of supplementary breast milk, then burp her and hold her upright for 30 min to help her digest. Then we swaddle her and put her in the carseat and she's out for hours. She prefers the carseat to her bassinet, we think because she likes the close sides - the bassinet is still too large and not comforting. The swaddle is good for her because, as her nervous system is still developing, her arms flail a lot, even in her sleep and she whacks herself in the face or hits her hands on things and that wakes her up. Hope this is helpful.

I'm having the same issues as you are. My baby wants to sleep curled up with me, and wakes up often if he sleeps in his crib. He is 9 months old and hasn't been sleeping with me for 4 nights now, and it's getting easier. My mom told me to give him camomile tea every night before bed (lightly sweet only) and only a couple of ounces out of the sippy cup. I think it's helping. He isn't sleeping entire night still, but is improving.

Mine did too, when he was getting teeth. you will not have a perfect baby all the time. when he's not feeling good, he'll wake up and need comforting. dont sweat it, she'll got back to the routine when she feels better.

I have a 7 month old who is a fantastic sleeper. I got this book, the baby whisperer, when she was born and I read a lot about teaching the baby to fall asleep on her own so that if she wakes up, she can go back to sleep. We have a routine....quiet time and bath before bed...jammies and a bottle....a little time after the bottle to relax on mommy's bed...then straight to the crib with lullabies for 30 minutes. We have her crib in our room so she can see us and she seems content with that. When she gets wakened up at night (usually by a disobedient teenage sibling) she might cry or just wake up and look around. If I see or hear her, I do not go to the crib unless I think she's got her blanket wrapped around her weird (she'll cry for that). I simply turn the lullabies back on and lay down. She can see me do it and doesn't seem to fuss. I think a big factor in her good sleep habits also have to do with making sure she gets enough calories during the day.

I have a 5 month old son and he been sleeping through the night since he was 3 months old. This is what I do every night......At 7:00pm I give him a bath, I use my bath tub and get in with him and we play with his toys then I wash him J&J night wash and we are in there for about a half hour to 45 min. then we get out and I give him a massage with J&J night lotion and make sure I rub it on his head. I give him a very soft massage. The I feed him 8oz of formal and it's night night until 7:30am. The night I don't give him a bath I just give him the massage. Good luck.
~Jacobs mommy~

I'm no expert but it sounds to me like your baby is not getting enough to eat during the day and before bed. I have a 3 month old who has been sleeping through the night since 8 weeks. I do a similar routine every night including feeding her on and off from 6PM- on until she gets enough and falls asleep. Sometimes she sleeps at 7, sometimes at 10, but i think it depends on how much she ate during the day and right before bed. she also wakes at least 3 times during the night but I don't hear her and she goes back to sleep..the key there I think is making the crib and inviting and happy place. I got a mobile that shows stars on the ceiling when its dark and has a remote control, so if he wakes up you can just turn it on if it helps put him back to sleep. Also I have a nightlight next to the crib so she can see the mobile and other toys around her and feel comfortable.

I went thru a similar situation with my son. From about 3-12 mos the most he would sleep was about 3 hrs, then he wanted in our bed. We tried about everything. Finally, I decided to really stick to some of the other advice I was reading on consistency and letting him cry it out, though I have to admit that I was very skeptical because I felt like I had already tried all that. I put a pillow in his crib to make it feel more like our bed (keep in mind he was 1 yr could already roll over and stand) then we put on a lullabye CD,I rocked him for a few mins, but not to sleep,then put him in his bed so he could learn to put himself to sleep. The 1st night he "cried it out" for over 2 1/2 hours (of course I kept checking on him in increasing increments), the next night it was an hour, then 30 min, by then end of the week he simply wimpered as I left his room. He only woke up twice and I waited 5 min before checking on him and he had put himself back to sleep. Been sleeping thru nite since.

My son started sleeping 12 hours a night at 8 weeks, but only when he was swaddled. As he got older, we were afraid he would only sleep through the night with the swaddle, and sure enough, without it he woke up at least once a night. So at 4 and a half months (When he could completely hold his head up) we started letting him sleep on his stomach, and it worked like a charm. He went right back to sleeping through the night. We also make sure not to give him any solid food w/ing 2 hours of bed time, bottle only, as the cereal can cramp them up.And try to make sure you keep things calm in the hours before bed. Nothing too loud, or too bright.

Same, our baby was 2 months she started sleeping though. Now she is 8 months and we have been traveling and she wont sleep longer than an hour on her own. My hubby has been putting her in our bed when she first goes to sleep and it makes it really hard to move her out later. Consistancy is key. It's really killing our "parent time" just to snuggle and be close without the baby in the middle. I know she is unsettled from the travel, but I still think consistancy is key no matter what is happening in life.

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